Noisy Neighbor Where Art Thou? VM Performance Culprit and Victim Analysis Using CloudPhysics Storage Analytics
In my last blog post I talked about the our new Storage Analytics offering. Here, I want to focus on one of the core features of this product offering — Datastore Contention card.
Wednesday, February 04, 2015 4:20:00 PM
Citrix Posts Big Losses for 2014, Announces Layoffs
About 900 employees and contractors will be losing their jobs.
Wednesday, February 04, 2015 7:54:00 AM
EMC buys into OpenStack with Cloudscaling acquisition
It might be struggling to keep its federation together, but that hasn’t stopped EMC Corp. from furthering its expansion efforts elsewhere. This time round it’s just bought into OpenStack with the acquisition of The Cloudscaling Group, Inc., one of the first vendors to sell it’s own distribution of the open-source cloud software.Cloudscaling’s offering is fairly unique, as it runs private OpenStack clouds on hardware of its own choosing within its own data centers, and can integrate these clouds...
Wednesday, October 15, 2014 3:50:00 AM
Citrix: The Report of CloudStack’s Death was a Great Exaggeration
The title of this post is a riff on the now famous quote by Mark Twain a.k.a. Samuel Clemens about the New York Journal’s confusion between him and at time his ailing cousin James Ross Clemens who was a continent away. The same thing happened recently with regards to two unrelated events. An organizational change here at Citrix and the perceived vitality of one of the technologies we help support, Apache CloudStack.
Thursday, September 18, 2014 8:36:00 AM
No, Citrix did not kill CloudStack
Much ink has been spilled about the recent Citrix shakeup around its CloudStack business, calling into question the long-term health of the Apache IaaS project. From the trenches, where CloudStack draws its strength, especially versus rival OpenStack, the view is quite different: CloudStack is a user-driven community with no use for Citrix at all.
Tuesday, September 16, 2014 1:03:00 PM
RackWare Interview with Sash Sunkara
RackWare, a provider of software to enhance cloud infrastructures, just raised $2.3m in funding (read here). Sash Sunkara, Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of the Santa Clara, CA-based company, answered our questions.
Friday, July 18, 2014 11:34:00 AM
Enterprise software company RackWare raises fresh $2.3M
RackWare, the software provider that integrates data center and cloud resources into a scalable and intelligently managed computing environment, today announced exceptional company momentum and a new $2.3 million round of funding led by existing investors Kickstart Seed Fund and Osage Venture Partners. This funding caps RackWare’s record growth over the past year with milestones in customer acquisitions, technology innovation and executive team expansion.
Thursday, July 17, 2014 1:33:00 PM
Citrix latest XenDesktop, XenApp plug into Amazon Web Services, CloudStack
Citrix on Tuesday launched new releases of its XenDesktop and XenApp virtualization applications that will connect to Amazon Web Services and the company's CloudPlatform.
Wednesday, January 29, 2014 2:46:00 AM
CloudStack, OpenStack, AWS-stack : Which stack?
Since the Hong Kong Design Summit, speculation about the future of the public and private cloud platform market, and specifically OpenStack, has been rampant, writes Wikibon contributor and SolidFire Director of Strategic Alliances David Cahill in “Stack Wars: Playing all year at a cloud near you“. The inevitable subject of debate is how viable OpenStack is as an alternative to market leader AWS. But this may be the wrong question.
Thursday, December 12, 2013 11:20:00 AM
Citrix on Extreme Scalability in the Cloud
Around 2001, my good friend Tim Cramer and I were working together on the Java Performance team at Sun Microsystem.
Friday, November 22, 2013 11:12:00 AM
OpenStack Havana Has Amazon-Like Aura
There's been Essex, Folsom and Grizzly, and now there's Havana. The next biannual release of OpenStack makes several major additions in workload orchestration and service delivery. All in all, 392 features have been added.
Monday, October 21, 2013 10:46:00 AM
Apache CloudStack 4.2 Released
The Apache CloudStack project is excited to announce the 4.2 feature release of the CloudStack cloud orchestration platform. This is the next feature release of the 4.0 branch which first released on November 6, 2012 with the 4.1 release on June 5. This is the second major release from Apache CloudStack since its graduation from the Apache Incubator on March 20th.
Monday, October 07, 2013 8:37:00 AM
CloudStack Graduates to Top-Level Apache Project
The Apache Software Foundation announced in late March that CloudStack is now a top-level project. This is a promotion from CloudStack's incubator status, where it had lived after being released as open source by Citrix.
Thursday, April 04, 2013 1:46:00 PM
Open source cloud battles: OpenStack leveling off as CloudStack interest gains
OpenStack is the largest and most active open source cloud computing project, but interest in the platform has leveled off in the last quarter as momentum for competing project CloudStack continues to build.
Tuesday, January 08, 2013 1:51:00 PM
Vendors continue to pick sides between CloudStack, OpenStack
Earlier this year Citrix rumbled the open source cloud industry when it ditched OpenStack, a project backed by big-name companies such as Rackspace, Red Hat, Dell and HP, and launched CloudStack, a competing open source platform for cloud deployments. Months later, vendors across the industry are strategically aligning themselves on either side of the divide between OpenStack or CloudStack, which is now an Apache Software Foundation-managed project.
Friday, September 07, 2012 11:44:00 AM
Gartner: Citrix, CloudStack, OpenStack, and the war for open-source clouds
There are dozens upon dozens of cloud management platforms (CMPs), sometimes known as “cloud stacks” or “cloud operating systems”, out in the wild, both commercial and open source. Two have been in the news recently — Eucalyptus and CloudStack — with implications for the third, OpenStack.
Wednesday, April 04, 2012 4:08:00 PM
Citrix Gives Cloudstack to the Apache Software Foundation and Turns its Back on OpenStack
Citrix is turning Cloudstack over to the Apache Software Foundation and aligning closely with Amazon Web Services in a move that will force the very green OpenStack movement t0 take another look at its governance model.
Wednesday, April 04, 2012 11:06:00 AM
Citrix aims to become the Red Hat of cloud computing with CloudStack
Citrix is making its mark on open-source cloud computing, following CloudStack software's release to the Apache Foundation. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based technology company acquired the rights to CloudStack with last year's Cloud.com acquisition. Citrix is a significant contributor to another open-source cloud computing platform called OpenStack, and one of the earliest members.
Tuesday, April 03, 2012 11:51:00 PM
Citrix Unveils Next Phase of CloudStack Strategy
Citrix today unveiled the next phase of its strategy to accelerate the broad adoption of open, interoperable cloud computing. As a key part of this strategy, the company’s popular CloudStack™ solution will become the first cloud platform in the industry to be submitted to the Apache Software Foundation, home of the world’s most successful open source projects.
Tuesday, April 03, 2012 4:30:00 PM